Gaza: Security Council meets on hostage crisis amid ‘unbearable’ conditions facing Palestinian civilians
Assistant Secretary-General Miroslav Jenča briefed a Security Council meeting on Tuesday called by Israel to discuss the plight of hostages still being held in...
Children are ‘skin and bones’ as Sudan marks a grim milestone
It is a grim milestone for Sudan, the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. But with insufficient funding, lack of access to key regions and intensifying...
SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE: Israel calls for focus on Gaza hostages’ plight
The Security Council is meeting to discuss rising concern in Israel and elsewhere over the dire conditions facing the hostages who remain in Gaza....
Gaza crisis deepens as UN warns children are ‘dying before reaching hospital’
With 96 per cent of households lacking clean water, many malnourished children are not surviving long enough to receive hospital care.James Elder, Spokesperson for...
World News in Brief: Child deaths in Pakistan, Ukrainian rail station attack, new UN-India...
The children picked up the unexploded ordnance in a nearby field, mistaking it for a toy, and brought it back to their village where...
UN News Today 05 August 2025 |
Gaza: Famine doesn’t happen overnight, says UN aid agencyUN aid agencies still in Gaza insisted once again on Tuesday on the need to get...
The world is demanding action over plastic pollution: UN environment chief
“The world wants and indeed needs a plastic conventional treaty because the crisis is getting out of hand – and people are frankly outraged,”...
Hunger in Gaza: Women and children face death in search of food
“I used to easily receive aid distributed by the UN,” Abir Safi, a displaced person from the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City, told UN...
First Person: Documenting despair and finding hope amidst the rubble of Gaza
Some 21 months have passed since the 7 October armed attacks on Israel which sparked the current brutal conflict.Thousands have died and much of...
An ambitious legally binding plastics treaty is needed more than ever, youth leaders say...
If ever the world needed to agree on stopping plastic pollution, it’s now, supporters of a deal say.According to the UN Environment Programme (UNEP),...
UN News Today 04 August 2025 |
Gaza remains on brink of famine as UNRWA chief calls for hostage releasesIn Gaza, UN aid teams continue to report that Gaza is on...
The final straw? Plastic pollution talks get underway in Geneva
Unless an international accord is inked, plastic waste is projected to triple by 2060, causing significant damage – including to our health – according to...
Cholera spreads in North Darfur, 640,000 children under threat, UNICEF warns
More than 1,180 cholera cases – including an estimated 300 in children – and at least 20 deaths have been reported in Tawila, a...
Awaza gears up to host UN conference on landlocked developing countries
More than 20 heads of state and government and some 3,000 delegates from international organizations, civil society, youth, academia and the private sector are...
Violence in northern Mozambique forces thousands to flee, straining aid efforts
The displacement is the latest consequence of a cascade of overlapping emergencies in the country – including armed violence, climate shocks, disease outbreaks and...
UN News Today 01 August 2025 |
Gaza: Over 1,000 Palestinians killed seeking food in recent monthsAs starvation deepens in Gaza, people continue to be killed in the desperate search for...
A mandate for change: UN releases proposals for streamlining of tasks as part of...
Mandates - requests or directives for action issued by the General Assembly, the Security Council and the Economic and Social Council - have multiplied...
Once-in-a-decade push for the ‘locked out’: Global leaders set for landmark UN conference in...
Backed by the new Awaza Programme of Action, the Third UN Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries or LLDC3 will push for freer transit, smarter...
Trade measures critical to ending plastic pollution
That assessment by UN trade and development body, UNCTAD, comes in an update published on Thursday ahead of the final round of talks to develop...
Angola protests: UN urges restraint, investigations into deaths
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Thursday urged Angolan authorities to conduct prompt, thorough and independent investigations into...
Russian attack on Ukrainian capital kills at least 11 civilians
Among the confirmed dead is a six-year-old boy. At least 10 of the injured were children, the mission said, and news reports indicate that...
‘Delivering better’: New ECOSOC president emphasises climate action, food security
Mr. Thapa said that the motto of his presidency will be “Delivering Better,” which requires strengthening partnerships and multilateralism to achieve more effective implementation...
UN News Today 31 July 2025 |
On brink of famine, Gazans forced to scour dirt for foodIn Gaza, UN aid teams continued their efforts on Thursday to help people of...
SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE: Meeting on the situation in Ukraine
The UN Security Council meets Thursday morning to discuss threats to international peace and security, with a focus on the situation in Ukraine. The...
